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Greetings! I hope you have
each had an excellent 2014!
As outgoing Chair, this will
serve as my final Chair's
Corner. I'd like to recap on
our recent successes. We've
grown from a Mid-Sized section to a Large
section; however, our numbers to retain our
Large section status are currently near the Mid-
Sized border. We held a strategic planning
retreat and developed the section's first
strategic plan which was aimed to more
resourcefully engage our members. The Indiana
section, which only had one named ACS Fellow,
increased to having 5 members recognized with
this distinguished title (Dr. Christina Bodurow,
Dr. David Mitchell, Dr. Dawn Brooks, and Dr.
Ken Racke)! We held a first ever "Impress for
Success" event in collaboration with NOBCChE.
Erica Posthuma-Adams, our High School
Committee Chair won the Regional Award for
Excellence in Teaching. Christina Bodurow was
named Volunteer of the Year. One of our SEED
students was named "Ms. Science Indiana" and
the Indiana ACS is sending 2 students to the
National Chemistry Olympiads for a chance to
compete at World. I'm excited to transition into
2015 where Dr. Matt Gardlik will serve as your
new Chair. He is introduced in this edition and
holds some amazing credentials! Thank you all
for allowing me to serve as your Chair in 2014-it
was an amazing and fulfilling experience that I
will never forget! Happy New Year!
DECEMBER, 2014
The Accelerator
or INDIANA SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Chair’s Last Corner BY ERIN DOTLICH
In this Issue
2 Member Appreciation and Networking Event 2 FIRST Robotics Program 3 Project Seed on NPR 3 Science in Art 4 Member Spotlight - Matt Gardlik 6 Technical Corner – Ayanna Jackson 7 Inuit Art 8 USNCO Exam
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Member Appreciation and
Networking Event BY LINDA V. OSBORN
Although only ~20 people showed up, all had a good
time at the Ram on December 16th
as we celebrated
our ACS Indiana local section 2014 members. Erin
Dotlich organized the event with delicious appetizers
and drinks. She awarded “Salutes to Excellence”
plaques to three special volunteers: Tamiko Porter
and Lisa Brouwer for their excellent contributions to
the Impress for Success Workshop and to Paul
Ridenour for his four years of service as Treasurer of
our local section. Gina Londino won the race car door
prize! We were also honored to have a special guest,
Paul Ardayfio, drop by for the event. On a personal
note, I would like to thank Erin for her service as
Chair and to her years of service prior that led to that
position. She had a difficult act to follow after Sibel
Selcuk’s leadership during the National Meeting, but
rose to the occasion to lead us through another great
year. Her legacy includes recognizing others for their
contributions. We look forward to her continued
service as past Chair and beyond.
2015 Executive Committee
Chair- Matthew Gardlik
Past Chair- Erin Dotlich
Chair Elect-Linda Osborn
Secretary-Tamiko Porter
Treasurer-Paul Ridenour
Councilors-Robert Pribush, Dawn Brooks, Brian
Mathes
Alternate Councilors- Sibel Selcuk, Amy
Debaillie, Robert Sammelson
Members at Large-, Ling Shi (Tom) Xiao,
Shamus Driver, Maria Alvim-Gaston
2015 Committee Chair
Education-Bob Pribush
Events- Sibel Selcuk, Amy Debaillie, Robert
Sammelson
Fundraising Committee-David Mitchell
Public Relations-Andrea Lindsay Frederick
National Chemistry Week-Viola Kimbowa
Awards-Kathy Stickney
Science Day-Jason Dunham
Women Chemists-Amy Debaillie
Grants-Amy Debaillie, LuAnne McNulty
Accelerator Editor-Julie Holland
Project Seed-Elmer Sanders, Josh Taylor
Young Chemists-Whitney Kellett
High School-Erica Posthuma-Adams
Webmaster-Matthew Gardlik
FIRST Robotics Program BY RENEE BECKER-BLAU
Learn more about the FIRST Robotics Program!
The FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff marks
the beginning of the design & build season for
the IndianaFIRST high school robotics teams. In
the FRC program, students have six weeks to
design and build a fully functional, 5ft tall, 120
lb robot for competition. The students develop
a strategy, CAD parts, learn machining skills,
assemble manipulators, and program the robot
for competitions in March.
At Kickoff, students have the opportunity to
meet with other teams at "local" Kickoffs to
compare notes, get ideas, make friends, find
mentoring teams, learn the game, pick up the
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Kit of Parts, and get geared up for the new
competition season!
The event will take place on January 3rd, 2015
from 9:00am - 11:30am at:
IUPUI Campus
Campus Center CE 450
420 University Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Does this sound interesting? Check out a video
about the program by Morgan Freeman- Click
Here.
If you would like to learn more about the
program, mentor a team, or attend Kick Off
please contact Renee Becker-Blau at
Project Seed on NPR BY ELMER SANDERS
After much endeavor, Project SEED was
featured on the NPR - National Public Radio
program Sound Medicine, hosted by Barbara
Lewis, locally on WFYI 90.1HD-1.
The segment was done in such a way for it to be
meaningful to a national audience. Although
numerous other people give audio input, the
story was limited to 8 minutes and shows a
small, yet meaningful, sliver of the internship
program.
The segment was recorded at the July 24 poster
session and features interns Sonali Mali and
Seth Reasoner, Seth's mentor Mike Kobierski
from Eli Lilly, Dr. Jim McAteer from the School
of Medicine and Dr. Simon Rhodes, Dean of the
IUPUI School of Science.
The following link contains the content from the
NPR program:
http://soundmedicine.org/post/through-
project-seed-program-bright-students-test-
field-chemistry
Science in Art BY JULIE HOLLAND
Many of you attended Dr. Greg Smith’s
presentation “Vanishing Van
Gogh” at the IMA earlier in
the year. Or perhaps you
saw his booth at Celebrate
Science Indiana. Dr. Smith
was recently interviewed by
Ira Flatow on NPR’s Science
Friday as part of Notre
Dame’s 150 year celebration
of its School of Science. As a
museum scientist at the IMA, the focus of the
interview was on the role science plays in
cultural heritage. He discusses a number of
past projects that highlight the way they work
with the museum’s collection.
The interview is available from the NPR website
as a podcast and also a full video of the live
recording in front of an audience at Notre
Dame. The video can be streamed at
http://www.sciencefriday.com/blogs/10/17/20
14/live-from-south-bend-indiana.html with Dr.
Smith’s segment starting at 1 hr, 42 min. The
shorter podcast of portions of the interview is
available at
http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/10/17/
2014/is-your-priceless-painting-a-fake-better-
ask-a-scientist.html
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BY LINDA V. OSBORN
Matt Gardlik is an associate at Woodard,
Emhardt, Moriarty, McNett & Henry LLP in
Indianapolis, Indiana. His practice includes the
preparation and prosecution of patent
applications as well as assisting in the firm's
litigation cases. As your next ACS Chair, we
thought we’d introduce you.
Born in 1980, Matt
grew up on the
northwest side of
Cincinnati and
attended
Finneytown High
School. When asked
who his favorite
teacher was, Matt
replied: “Dr. White,
Finneytown High School. He taught AP Biology.
Some of the experiments we performed during
that class were difficult and demanding; this left
a huge impact on me even before I started
college.”
The oldest of three children, Matt and his
brother and sister were raised by their stay-at-
home Mom who enjoys cooking and crafting
and their father, John M. Gardlik, a chemist for
The Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati
who works on hair colorant technology and
holds a number of patents. Intelligent and
competitive, Matt is an avid technologist whose
interests range from computer programming to
organic synthesis. As an undergraduate, Matt
received Wittenberg University's Division of
Analytical Chemistry Award for construction
and programming of a computer-controlled
automatic titrator.
Matt earned his Ph.D. at The Ohio State
University where his dissertation involved
organic synthesis and supramolecular
chemistry. He developed an optimized synthetic
route to a key intermediate in the synthesis of a
new class of supramolecular hosts. This enabled
the scale-up and preparation of several hosts
that was critical for studying their encapsulation
properties. He also studied the coordination,
solution, and solid-state encapsulation
chemistry of three new related supramolecular
hosts by various methods that included 1-D and
2-D variable temperature NMR, isothermal
titration calorimetry, and X-RAY crystal
diffraction.
Then in May of 2012, Dr. Gardlik received a J.D.
from Capital University Law School in Columbus,
Ohio.
What drew him to Chemistry? “Making
something new at the atomic level, especially in
organic chemistry, is exciting. “ What drew him
to Law? “I've always had an appreciation for the
significant contributions that inventions can
have to businesses, and patent law is one way
to protect those contributions”.
“Making something new at the
atomic level, especially in
organic chemistry, is exciting. “
Matt Gardlik
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Matt’s passions extend beyond chemistry and the law; he is
also active with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Having
played the violin since the second grade, Matt has a great
appreciation for the Symphony's performances, education,
and outreach. Matt is a member of the FORTE Leadership
Committee, the Symphony's young professional group. He’s
athletically gifted, too. In 2003, he ran the
Columbus marathon in 3:39:45.
An ACS member since 2001, and active in the Cincinnati local
section for 5 years, Matt was awarded the 2012 Catalyst Award
by the Cincinnati Section of the ACS. He started getting
involved with the Indiana local section shortly after he moved
to Indianapolis in 2012. Our section has greatly benefitted
from his tech-savvy talents. For example, he started the first
electronic voting of our local section, saving our section money
to send out ballots in the mail. In November
2013, Matt was elected Chair of the Indiana Section of the
ACS. This three year commitment to the Executive Committee
includes roles as Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair. With Matt
at the helm, our Indiana Local Section is bound to have
another great year and we look forward to his orchestration.
Matt is prepared to communicate his 2015 goals for the
Indiana Section in the next Accelerator in his first ”Chair’s
Corner.”
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHEMISTRY
TEACHERS (AACT)
Serving K–12 teachers of chemistry everywhere,
AACT will offer specialized chemistry teaching
resources, a periodical about teaching chemistry
in the K–12 classroom, an online community for
sharing strategies, and more! Please visit
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education
/educators/aact.html
The Gardlik File
Education
May 2012 J.D., Capital University
Law School, Columbus, OH
June 2009 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH
May 2002 B.S., Chemistry, Wittenberg University, Springfield,
OH
Memberships
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra,
FORTE Leadership Committee
Indiana Section of the American
Chemical Society, 2015 Chair
American Bar Association
Indiana State Bar Association
Indianapolis Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law
Association
Speak Easy Indianapolis
Awards
2012 Catalyst Award, Cincinnati Section of the ACS
2011, CALI Excellence for the Future
Award® in Patent Law
2011, CALI Excellence for the Future Award® in Copyright Law
2001, Analytical Chemistry Award for construction and programming
of a computer controlled automatic titrator
Miscellaneous
4 peer-reviewed publications
2014, Featured in article in The Indiana Lawyer regarding law firm
Apps
Gardlik Enterprises, LLC. Sole member and manager
acoolsystemforvoting.org, online elections and surveys
https://www.acoolsystemforvoting.org
MMG Audio, Sound Engineering
http://www.mmgaudio.com
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Ayanna Jackson received
IBJ’s 40 under 40 Award in
2014!
BY LINDA V. OSBORN
At the young age
of 30, Ayanna
Jackson already
has a distinguished
resume. With the
likes of Andrew
Luck, Ayanna
deservingly
received IBJ’s
2014 40 Under 40 Award. Equipped with her
Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue
University, Ayanna is a senior chemist at Dow
AgroSciences who spends her days solving
analytical problems developing products for
improving crop productivity using mass
spectrometry. “Typically,” Jackson said, “I’m
going into the lab and running a series of
samples to help identify an active compound and
metabolites that have been generated.” Her data
will be part of a larger report submitted to
various government regulatory agencies for
review and feedback. “In the end, we hope for
approval and commercial release of products
that help protect crops in the field.”
Also a 2010 MG Mellon Award recipient, the
faculty at Purdue described Ayanna as pleasant,
intelligent, energetic, and proactive. The
Brandywine, Maryland native balanced her own
studies with leadership roles within the
analytical division and as a campus-wide mentor.
“Ayanna is not only an excellent scientist and
researcher, but she was the go-to person in my
large lab,” says Professor R. Graham Cooks. Her
research was focused on the analysis of a variety
of materials using non-conventional mass
spectrometry ionization techniques in
applications such as rapid detection of chemicals
in foodstuffs.
From an early age, she enjoyed science
experiments and counts herself lucky to have
had teachers who encourage that interest. While
an undergraduate at Xavier University, she
focused on forensics with hopes of getting a
position with the FBI. An interest in chemistry led
to graduate studies at Purdue University. “My
mother is a nurse/midwife. One of my sisters is a
dentist. Schooling was always important to my
family.”
Jackson is active with the National Organization
for the Professional Advancement of Black
Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
and advocates for science, technology,
engineering and math education through the
Science Ambassadors program at Dow. “Science
isn’t your popular career avenue for most
students,” she said. “Students want to be doctors
or nurses, but they don’t really understand that
the core fundamental piece is the sciences.”
Ayanna understands and excels at science.
Ayanna is a born leader, destined to make a
difference. She enjoys project management and
hopes to do some adjunct teaching with the goal
of influencing students. It is while influencing
students that I had the good fortune of getting
to know Ayanna, as she was a team leader for
the “Impress for Success” workshop jointly
Technical Corner
IBJ Photo/Aaron P. Bernstein
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sponsored by NOBCChE and the ACS in
September for under-represented college
students. Ayanna recruited famous speakers for
the event that were well-received by the
students. Dr. Jackson also serves on the board of
Celebrate Science Indiana.
Congratulations, Ayanna. Your ACS family wishes
you well.
Information for this article obtained from:
Morris, G. (2014, February 3). IBJ unveils Forty
Under 40 honorees. Section B.
http://www.ibj.com/forty-under-40-2014
Inuit Art
BY LOU JUNGHEIM
This article was written by
Lou Jungheim, a retired
research fellow, long time
member of the ACS Indiana
Local Section, and the
Divisions of Medicinal
Chemistry and Organic
Chemistry. He is also the
current President of the Inuit Art Society. It is
another in our series of articles about the
amazingly varied activities of retired senior
chemists.
As a Research Fellow at Eli Lilly and Company in
Indianapolis, and about to retire after more
than 31 years at Lilly doing medicinal
chemistry/drug discovery research, a lot of
friends and colleagues were wondering what I
would do to fill my days. That was a couple of
years ago now, and I must say that being
President of the Inuit Art Society (IAS,
www.inuitartsociety.org) was certainly not on
my radar screen. My wife, Dr. Thalia Nicas, and I
had been members of the IAS for several years,
but when I retired I was asked to join their
board of directors and within a year found
myself elected to lead the organization.
You may ask, what is Inuit Art? As the Canadian
Inuit people, previously referred to as Eskimos,
began settling into communities they were
encouraged by their government to expand
their skills in stone sculpture into an income-
generating venture. Since the 1960s, the market
for Inuit sculpture, prints, drawings and
tapestry has flourished. The IAS is a group of art
collectors, artists, galleries and museums
dedicated to improving member's
understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of
the arts of the Arctic and the Inuit culture.
My interest in Inuit art was kindled in 1983
while attending a chemistry conference in
Waterloo, Ontario. The university there had a
small gallery and I fell in love with a whale
sculpture on display. Later that week the
plenary lecturers at the conference presented
Professor Victor Snieckus, the meeting
organizer, with this whale sculpture so I know it
has a good home!
In 1991 I married Thalia, a Canadian citizen,
thus my trips to Canada became frequent and
my exposure to Inuit art much broader. I
learned many Canadians own Inuit soapstone
carvings, as a bit of "Canadiana". We started
small but after a couple of years another whale
sculpture "spoke to me" and over the years our
Inuit collection has grown to more than seventy
sculptures, most of which are large, and several
prints. These are accompanied by a somewhat
smaller collection of Northwest Coast Indian
art, and an eclectic collection of oil paintings as
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well as motorsports images (another passion)
that include two Inuit racecar carvings.
The big task for 2014 was organizing the IAS
Annual Meeting which was held at the Eiteljorg
Museum of Indian and Western Art here in
Indianapolis in mid-October. The IAS was born
out of a meeting that included Eiteljorg staff
and a group of local collectors with inspiration
from the Canadian Consul General's office in
2002. Today we have members in 17 states and
5 Canadian provinces. This year's speakers
included art authorities and a guest artist from
Baffin Island. Several Inuit galleries brought
more than 300 works of art to tempt our
wallets. Best of all we renewed friendships with
like-minded collectors.
Attention All HS Teachers or
Parents with HS Students
USNCO Exam to be held in
March BY ROBERT PRIBUSH
The 2015 Indiana Local Section USNCO Exam
will be held on March 28, 2015 at Brebeuf Jesuit
Preparatory School in Indianapolis.
For the first time in over 40 years, we are
changing the exam from a scholarship exam to a
chemistry achievement recognition
exam. While we will continue to use the exam
to find students to take the national USNCO
exam in April and recognize the overall top-
scoring students and high schools with plaques
and modest cash awards, for the first time ever,
we will give every school that sends at least
three students to the exam a perpetual plaque
(good for 12-24 years!) with the name of the
top-performing student from that school. The
idea is to create a culture of chemistry
performance recognition within as many high
schools as possible.
School awards continue to include a plaque but,
in addition, a one-year membership to the
American Association of Chemistry Teachers or
the cash equivalent toward membership in the
American Chemical Society will be awarded
to one teacher in each school finishing among
the top five schools in the First-Year Exam and
the top five schools in the Advanced Exam.
These changes, along with an exam date that
gives teachers and students three additional
weeks to prepare for the exam, will hopefully
result in a significant increase in the number of
schools and students participating in the local
section exam.
Attached are the 2015 local section USNCO
exam announcement letter, the rules and the
registrations forms for the First-Year and
Advanced Exams. Forms can also be obtained
by contacting Robert Pribush at
[email protected] or Julie Holland at
1stYear_ExamRegistr
ationForm2015.doc
1stYear_ExamRules20
15.doc
Advanced_ExamRegis
trationForm2015.doc
Advanced_ExamRules
2015.doc
2015_USNCO_Letter_
to_High_School_Chemistry_Teachers.doc
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NCW 2014
BY VIOLA KIMBOWA-RADLOVIC
The American Chemical Society of Indiana
sponsored the annual National Chemistry Week
celebration at the Children’s Museum of
Indianapolis on Saturday November 1st
2014.
This year’s celebration was based on the theme:
The Sweet Side of Chemistry – Candy!!
Indiana ACS kicked-off NCW with an award
ceremony honoring winners of the annual T-
shirt design and high school competition. Nora
LaRoache created the winning T-shirt design
and won a pizza party for her class, an ACS
trophy, and an ACS certificate. Students at the
Upper Room Corp Homeschool won 1st
place in
the high school video contest and students at
Irvington Preparatory Academy won 2nd
place!
There was also plenty for guests to do. Guy
Hanson and Chemistry is a Blast which is
sponsored by Eli Lilly demonstrated the fun
nature of chemistry. Patricia Maldonado and
Kids in Chemistry taught kids how to make
Jiggle Jelly!!
Several local businesses, universities- and non-
profit organizations provided other interactive
scientific activities for children. The University
of Indianapolis and Butler University students
demonstrated the density of candy. AIcHE gave
the kids a non-Newtonian fluid lesson while Ball
State University students explained density,
solubility and the pH of candy. Lancaster
Laboratories and Girl Scouts of Indiana had
candy chromatography activities. IUPUI Forensic
Science Club demonstrated white powder
identification while Heritage Research Group
and Monument Chemical used tooth picks and
gumdrops to build compounds! The ACS had a
marbling experiment and also held a scavenger
hunt and gave out prizes.
All the kids (and parents) really enjoyed learning
and engaging in all the booth activities. This
year’s celebration of The Sweet Side of
Chemistry was attended by approximately 2800
museum visitors.
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DECEMBER 2014
Newsletter Editor
Julie Holland
Publicity Chair
Andrea Lindsay Frederick
Section Chair
Erin Dotlich
Design
Linda Osborn
The ACS would like to extend a heartfelt “Thank
you!!” to the ACS volunteers, local
organizations, educational institutions, to the
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, and to our
event sponsors, Monument Chemical and
Heritage Research Group who helped make this
event a grand science outreach to the
community.
From left to right: Michelle Sjostrom, Viola
Kimbowa-Radlovic, and Patrick Pollock
The Indiana Section of the ACS publishes the
Accelerator at least three times a year. The
Section is not responsible for statements or
opinions printed in this publication. The Editor
is responsible for all unsigned and staff articles.
Viola Kimbowa-Radlovic has been the
Chair of our National Chemistry Week for
five years. We thank you, Viola, for your
excellence in leadership and
volunteerism for this popular outreach
event for our section.